Leeville, Nevada

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Beowawe census division. It lies near Popovich Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rodeo Creek NE quadrangle.

Leeville within Eureka County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Winnemucca quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Rodeo Creek NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Battle Mountain quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Leeville between 1993 and 2015, burning about 115,075 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2011	Natural	110,827 acres	Elko District Office	INDIAN CREEK
29 August 2002	Natural	15 acres	Elko District Office	INDIAN CRK
26 August 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Elko District Office	GOLD Q3
26 August 1996	Natural	1,899 acres	Elko District Office	GOLD Q #2
7 July 2015	Natural	1.0 acres	Elko District Office	LITTLE JACK
29 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2,230 acres	Elko District Office	BOULDER
26 July 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Elko District Office	NEW MONT 1
1 July 1999	Power generation/transmission/distribution	100 acres	Elko District Office	SHEEP CREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Eureka County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Leeville: 16 past producers, 14 producers, 9 plants, 6 occurrences. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Mercury, Gemstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Six Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Blue Star Mine	Gold, Silver, Gemstone, Copper, Arsenic, Zinc, Antimony, Barium-Barite	Producer	1929
Blue Star Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Semiprecious Gemstone, Mercury, Lead	Plant	1957, 1975
Bullion Monarch Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Plant
Carlin Gold Mine	Gold, Mercury, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Thallium, Copper	Past Producer	1962, 1965, 1987
Carlin-Hardie-Pete Mine Area	Gold, Mercury, Silver, Thallium, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Producer	1962, 1965, 1987
Greater Goldstrike, North Mines	Gold, Silver, Arsenic	Producer	1962, 1977, 2004
Leeville Mine Deposits	Gold, Mercury, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Thallium, Lead	Producer	1994, 2005
Morning Glory	Antimony, Bismuth, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Morning Glory Prospect	Antimony, Bismuth, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	Stibnite

Every working recorded in Eureka County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Goldville (historical)	0.3 miles	9
Dunphy	18.4 miles	10
Primeaux	18.5 miles	10
Rixies	19.7 miles	10
Shoshone	19.9 miles	10
Palisade	22.1 miles	14
Cluro	23.2 miles	10
Gerald (historical)	23.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 847086. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.